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Unlikely. Not saying that there's no effect, but even without COVID it's already setting alarms at CCP. The declining population of China is a well-known probl

Unlikely. Not saying that there's no effect, but even without COVID it's already setting alarms at CCP. The declining population of China is a well-known problem so much that its one-child policy was progressively loosened and the scrapped altogether. Essentially, if the Chinese people (collectively) decide to focus on growing a 3+ child family, this population crunch will decline, but it seems that in major urban areas the people in general voiced that the policies might not be pro-family enough to reverse this shrinkage (with even some pointing to practices that indirectly discourage bringing up a family like workplace discrimination on pregnant women).

throwaway293d 5y ago
Although I don't have any data to back it up, but I think the financial burden on children of one-child policy to support their parents made many of them turn away from having kids. It's already hard enough to support their parents, why make it even hard by supporting another generation. So now, it's a downward spiral where only the financially secure will choose to have kids. CCP certainly succeeded in curbing the population. The question now is whether they can reverse course. My gut feeling is that as China becomes more developed, people will want less kids (as everything gets more expensive), making it likely they will fail.